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Police in Malaysia on Monday questioned controversial Indian Muslim preacher Zakir Naik for allegedly making racist remarks, as Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad joined a chorus of government officials ...
When Tracy Goh moved from Malaysia to San Francisco in 2012, she didn’t know anyone in her adopted city, so she began hosting pop-up dinners in her flat to make friends. But what started as small soci...
The political convulsions that seized China in the 19th century triggered developments with ripple effects that are still being felt today. In 1842, Hong Kong Island was ceded to Britain by the declin...
Don Tang is proud of his toys. So much so that the Shanghai resident, 32, puts them on display both in his home and in the office of the company he runs. And there are plenty to display. Tang, 32, has...
August in Malaysia usually sees a month-long swell in patriotic feel-good sentiment as the nation looks forward to Independence Day celebrations on the 31st – but this year, instead of nationalistic c...
By the time Han, a North Korean defector, and her six-year-old son were found at their rented flat in southwestern Seoul, they had been dead for weeks. The building manager who found the bodies made t...
“Their fight for freedom and democracy is also our fight,” says Bosco Wong, a 23-year-old originally from Macau, referring to the anti-government protests in Hong Kong. The former Portuguese enclave, ...
A Singaporean start-up is looking to transform the face of Southeast Asia by building smart cities powered by blockchain technology – starting with an ambitious 100-hectare mixed-use development proje...
Parents should beware: if their child behaves like a smart aleck or becomes more stubborn, he or she might be about to turn into a communist terrorist. This was claimed by newly elected senator Ronald...
Before Aye Aung made her first trip out of Myanmar to Singapore as a foreign domestic worker, the 25-year-old weighed slightly more than 40kg. But after working in Singapore for just over a year, she ...
Saad still has chubby, small hands like most children his age do. But his dark and penetrative eyes could belong to an adult. Though Saad is only 2 years old, the destruction caused by Syria’s deadly ...
PROTESTS AGAINST THE DALAI LAMA AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA In February 2017, the university said the Buddhist spiritual leader would be giving a commencement speech to graduating students. About ...
A creative but controversial meme has been racking up likes on a Facebook page titled SFU Dank Memes, a private group frequented by more than 3,700 students at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University (SFU...
“The future is Asian,” boasts Parag Khanna, a Singapore-based consultant in his recent book of the same name. Khanna believes that as American unipolarity begins to ebb, the Asian regional system will...
Joy was in short supply for Mohammad Imran. The high school senior studies in Afghanistan’s Gardez city, capital of the eastern province of Paktia; needing a break, he planned a short trip to his home...
Ko Myung-hee starts the engine of her SUV with bags full of fresh vegetables picked from her own garden and two ice-cold bottles of sikhye – a sweet rice drink. It’s 9am and the 52-year-old senior car...
More than a few eyebrows were raised when the Indian government released its latest census data in the last week of July – and not just because it was nearly eight years late. One of the biggest surpr...
Indonesia’s PT Bakrieland Development, controlled by the family of billionaire politician Aburizal Bakrie, is looking to team up with state-owned China Construction First Group (CCFG) to build a US$35...
If India’s parliament passes a proposed new Surrogacy Regulation Bill, cases such as that of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, who had his third child via surrogacy, would no longer be possible. The...
South Korea is an international sporting powerhouse, with top 10 finishes in the medals table at every Summer Olympics since 2004 and a number of its nationals having become big-name soccer and baseba...